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Window Faces

24 Thursday May 2012

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Anyone out there remember how fun smashing your face against a window used to be?  I remember it being the funniest when someone would be on the other side of the glass to witness just how ridiculous my face could transform.

Dexter reminded me of this silly game yesterday.  Unfortunately I couldn’t be on the other side to snap the photos … but you can get a pretty good idea of how goofy he was being from my vantage point.

Hey Mom, you want to know how all that goober got on the window???
…. THIS GUY!

Hide and Seek

15 Tuesday May 2012

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So, apparently today is Teacher’s Day here in Mexico and in honor of all the teachers, they have given me the day off.  This is Dave, by the way.

I got to spend a couple hours with Dex, chasing him around the apartment for a while and, now that he’s mobile, we can play games like “Hide n’ Seek” and “See how long it takes me to grab a handful of dog food”.

I would have taken some pictures of the latter, but I had to choose between preventing the aforementioned event or documenting it and letting him play with trachea-sized doggie kibble.

Without further ado, our game of Hide-n-Seek, I was able to keep his attention for a whole 10 seconds.

I found you! YAY! Ok, now you bore me…

Mother to Son

12 Thursday Apr 2012

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Yesterday a sweet little present came in the mail from my good friend, Jess.  It was a book called Mother to Son and it has little sayings and advice from baby through high school.

The baby quotes made me smile, but the high school quotes made me tear up … I can’t even imagine Dexter all grown up!

In the Beginning

Know that your job in life is to feed him, love him, and point him in the right direction

Be ready for him to wake up hungry. Boys eat more than you can imagine, even as babies.

Keep lots of soft towels handy.  He’s a drooling machine

The Toddler Years

If you want him to listen to you when he’s a teenager, teach him to listen to you now.

He will try to drag a hose from the sandbox to living room.  Discourage this.

Grade School

Walk him to school for as long as he’ll let you

He will want you to feel his muscles.  Tell him he’s a hunk.

Middle School

State in your harshest mother-voice, that under no circumstances, in this lifetime, may he jump off any roof into a pool.

Know that left unattended for one second, however, he will jump off the roof into the nearest pool.

High School

He doesn’t need a radar detector.  If he gets speeding tickets, he needs to slow down.

If he does get a ticket, don’t try to get it fixed.  Send him to court.  Wearing a tie.